The mind-body Cartesian dualism and psychiatry

The French philosopher René Descartes (1596-1650) argued that the natures of mind and body are completely different from one another and that each could exist by itself. How can these two structures with different natures causally interact in order to give rise to a human being with voluntary bodily...

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Autor principal: Thibaut, Florence
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Les Laboratoires Servier 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6016047/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29946205
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spelling pubmed-60160472018-06-26 The mind-body Cartesian dualism and psychiatry Thibaut, Florence Dialogues Clin Neurosci Editorial The French philosopher René Descartes (1596-1650) argued that the natures of mind and body are completely different from one another and that each could exist by itself. How can these two structures with different natures causally interact in order to give rise to a human being with voluntary bodily motions and sensations? Even today, the problem of mind-body causal interaction remains a matter of debate. Les Laboratoires Servier 2018-03 /pmc/articles/PMC6016047/ /pubmed/29946205 Text en Copyright: © 2018 AICH - Servier Research Group. All rights reserved http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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